new e-mail account

[quofan]

I am due to get broadband on Monday, but with a different provider than I use for emails now. When I register with Virgin net, my new ISP, how can I access my old emails on Tesconet (the old provider) as it wa on dial up. Any help much appreciated, thanks

[Sammy Snake]

I don't think you can. When I switched from wanadoo dial up to Tiscali broadband I lost my wanadoo email address and all my emails.

[maviscoull]

yeh, i think they close down your a/c after a few days. you can always send all in your old providers address book an email with your new email address.

[Siamsal]

Unless you've already downlaoded them, you won't be able to.

[Postdog]

All the above answers are, I think, wrong BUT I COULD BE WRONG TOO so don't hold me to it. When I changed from Line One (now Tiscali I think, or whatever it is now) to BT I was able to access for a while. Mind you, as said, the account does get shut down eventually.

If you go to Tools, accounts in your email settings, you CAN have more than one account set up. As the particulars of where you pick up emails are contained in the settings, you need only change the connection to this account (use the same as you use for your new connection)

Just in case the setup of your new account deletes the old account, save all the settings (I think you need to export them). On the account, highlight it, and click export, and choose where to save it.

Also save any addresses you want (I think you use EXPORT (in File) either WAB or export as text comma files. Text, etc, may be best - just remember to tick the relevant boxes and then choose where to save it. Then simply import when you have the new account. Anyway, click on file in outlook express and go from there.

I'm not guaranteeing any of this because it has been SOOOO long since I did it, but you can only try.

[Siamsal]

Further to what Postdog says, I'm assuming you are accessing mail via POP3/SMTP IE not via a web page.

If this is so, you are very unlikely to be able to get your email once you no longer logon via Tesco. This is because normally ISPs protect their email servers by only allowing access from their side (IE not the internet side) of their routers. From Virgin, you will access Tesco via the internet.

However, each ISP may have their own ideas, and it is certainly worth trying what Postdog suggests. There is likely to be a day or two delay before your old account's data is zapped.

Ideally, you should have planned for several days overlap
between accounts, to allow for problems.

If you access your email via a browser, you are much more likely to be able to see it from Virgin, at least until it's all zapped.